~ As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles. ~  ~ A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. ~ ~ Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed. ~ ~ Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should. ~ ~ The aggression committed by Israel must be condemned, not only because no state has the right to annexe foreign territory, but because every expansion is an experiment to discover how much more aggression the world will tolerate. ~ ~ No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. ~ ~ A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. ~ ~ All human activity is prompted by desire. ~ ~ Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. ~ ~ To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. ~ ~ Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. ~ ~ Real life is, to most men ... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible. ~ ~ The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love. ~ ~
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